⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Thunder got 13 points ahead of the pace we expected in the second quarter and stayed there. A much higher scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ MEM better than we expected
▼ OKC better than we expected
The second quarter was where it moved most, 9 points worse than our numbers for the Grizzlies.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Thunder won, and why the Grizzlies did not.
From the game
Kept giving it away, 21 turnovers to their fifteen
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Grizzlies
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Thunder
Good plays
- 10-0 run
A 10-0 run took them from 3 down to 7 up
Q1 6:35 · MEM 11-18 OKC
- 11-0 run
A 11-0 run stretched a 13-point lead to 24
Q3 4:50 · MEM 63-87 OKC
- 10-0 run
A 10-0 run stretched a 13-point lead to 23
Q4 8:56 · MEM 82-105 OKC
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| MEM | OKC | |
|---|---|---|
| 42% | Shooting from the field | 56% |
| 6 | Threes made | 9 |
| 40% | Three-point accuracy | 50% |
| 26 | Free throws made | 27 |
| 44 | Rebounds | 48 |
| 9 | Offensive rebounds | 8 |
| 17 | Assists | 22 |
| 44 | Points in the paint | 44 |
| 13 | Fast break points | 19 |
| 21 | Points off turnovers | 18 |
| 15 | Turnovers | 21 |
| 11 | Steals | 8 |
| 3 | Blocks | 5 |
